The University of North Carolina provided me with every tool necessary to rise to the top of my profession.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I definitely had a top-notch education.
The preparation I had in college was the most valuable.
The University of South Carolina has always played a role in my life and the intellectual life of South Carolina.
I was going to go to school to become a neurological surgeon.
Soon after my degree, in 1958 I went to the United States to enlarge my experience and to familiarize myself with particle accelerators. I spent about one and a half years at Columbia University.
I willed myself through a junior college to a university and, ultimately, a Ph.D.
To my father, business was the highest calling, but to my mother, medicine was the top profession.
The only thing that I was equipped for with my very mediocre college Arts degree was to get a job in teaching.
As Governor of North Carolina for two terms, I made improving education a top priority.
In South Carolina, there's a lot of arts programs. So I was blessed enough to go to the Governor School For Arts & Humanities.